Senior Engineering Manager — Cloud Compute Orchestration

Akamai Career Site; United States; On-site; USD 174,000 - 313,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to guide essential teams supporting the Compute platform integration layer. You will shape strategy, improve SDLC, and advance service architecture while overseeing Team Leads, Engineers, and Managers to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, cloud/web services leadership, and strong communication across Product Management, SRE, Engineering, and product teams.

Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Experience managing high-performing engineering teams in a cloud-engineering and web services environment.
• Background in architectural design, particularly with distributed systems, microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and backend service integration.
• Track record of driving large-scale migrations, such as moving services to containerized orchestration or modularizing legacy systems to support business demand.
• Experience ensuring security, performance, and reliability (e.g., container scanning, managing single points of failure, disaster recovery planning) in mission-critical environments.
• Ability to communicate openly and respectfully, fostering a culture of ownership, integrity, and constructive collaboration across diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Driving the strategic direction and roadmap for Akamai Compute's customer-facing API and internal backend orchestration and support services.
• Driving the architectural shift of these services to container orchestration and modular designs, enabling horizontal scalability and granular component ownership.
• Establishing mechanisms to audit software lifecycles, enhancing service reliability, improving observability, and ensuring robust security for Akamai Compute.
• Partnering with Product Management, SRE, Engineering leaders, SDET and various product teams to define requirements, integrate new features, and drive consistent, intuitive user experiences.
• Fostering a growth-oriented, inclusive, and respectful culture. Mentor Senior and Principal engineers, drive technical leadership, and promote knowledge sharing across the organization.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to guide essential teams supporting the Compute platform integration layer. You will shape strategy, improve SDLC, and advance service architecture while overseeing Team Leads, Engineers, and Managers to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, cloud/web services leadership, and strong communication across Product Management, SRE, Engineering, and product teams.